[jeffreyjerpp]

(10-16-2018 02:43 AM)Sgt Donger Wrote:  

Here's an article from Scientific American: How Accurate Are Personality Tests?

Quote:

One famous example of a popular but dubious commercial personality test is the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator. This questionnaire divides people into 16 different “types” and, often, the assessment will suggest certain career or romantic pairings. It costs $15 to $40 for an individual, but psychologists say the questionnaire is one of the worst personality tests in existence for a wide range of reasons.

Had to laugh..."one of the worst personality tests in existence"

Anytime modern academics say something is "the worst", or otherwise deride it, you have to account for the fact that it might just be ideologically problematic for them.

For example, if a test WORKS, but proves something they don't like, it is "the worst". Amazon's hiring AI was "the worst" because it quickly selected men as the best employees, for example. Paternity tests and IQ tests are "the worst". Etc.

Myers-Briggs reveals that large swathes of the population are idiots who shouldn't be trusted with anything important, which is not very compatible with equalist thinking. Your MBTI type is extremely good at predicting intelligence:



Take the ESFJ personality, for example. The wikipedia nicely sugarcoats that this personality type is not very smart on average:

"ESFJs focus on the outside world and assess their experiences subjectively. They largely base their judgments on their belief system and on the effects of actions on people. ESFJs are literal and concrete, trusting the specific, factual information gathered through their physiological senses..... ESFJs' values tend to be based more on those of their social group than on an independent internal set of ethics....ESFJs may be less interested in understanding the concepts behind the rules, tending to shy away from the abstract and impersonal.[10]"

What the evidence actually shows is that these people cannot comprehend abstract concepts, operate mostly on instinct, and rarely have even triple digit IQs. When Myers Briggs gets labeled pseudo-science, it's because someone realized humans aren't all "equal" (SAD!) and created a flimsy justification for why this is therefore not valid.

Compare the ESFJ description with the INTP. You might as well be talking about two different species:

"INTPs usually come to distrust authority as hindering the uptake of novel ideas and the search for knowledge. INTPs accept ideas based on merit, rather than tradition or authority. They have little patience for social customs that seem illogical or that obstruct the pursuit of ideas and knowledge.
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INTPs organize their understanding of any topic by articulating principles, and they are especially drawn to theoretical constructs. Having articulated these principles for themselves, they can demonstrate remarkable skill in explaining complex ideas to others in very simple terms, especially in writing. On the other hand, their ability to grasp complexity may also lead them to provide overly detailed explanations of simple ideas, and listeners may judge that the INTP makes things more difficult than they need to be. To the INTPs' mind, they are presenting all the relevant information or trying to crystallize the concept as clearly as possible.[13]
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According to Keirsey, based on behavioral characteristics, notable architects might include Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Jefferson.[3]"